The Suez crisis was the end of the road for Britain as a global rule-maker. The US is setting itself up for a repeat ...

By capitulating and throwing money at the problem, the Government has set itself up for a repeat performance, as Ireland’s EU ...

How can we waste so much public money so quickly in so many ways? Has there ever been a country that has achieved so little ...

Many associate the Easter Rising with Sinn Féin, but in terms of its planning, organisation and execution, the Rising was an Irish Republican Brotherhood operation, aided and abetted by James Connolly ...

For many Irish people, 1990 is remembered as the year of the World Cup quarter finals. Cruelly, Ireland exited the Italia ‘90 competition following a jammy goal from Italian striker Totó Schillaci, ...

In 1887, the British parliament passed the Merchandise Marks Act to protect British industry from knock-off products which purported to be made in the UK but were in fact made cheaper – and in many ...

It’s keep-the-head-down time. In the week when Donald Trump’s latest hissy fit has led to the imposition of 10 per cent tariffs across the board, no country wants to appear on his mercantilist radar ...

To understand the history and culture of multi-ethnic Yugoslavia, start with The Bridge on the Drina. By Nobel Prize winner Ivo Andric, this Balkan epic tells a five-century tale about the Bosnian ...

In the Divine Comedy, Dante reserved one of his most ghastly punishments for the crime of forgery. In Canto 30 of the Inferno, a counterfeiter Adamo is condemned to the eighth circle of hell, just one ...

The one thing that successive Irish governments want to avoid is having to make a choice between Europe and the US. As long as the US is guardian of the Grand Bargain, Ireland can be European and ...